Murat Azdemir

GM | Mobile, Consumer Electronics & TMT | Samsung Electronics Türkiye | P&L Leadership | Turnaround

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

P&L-owning commercial executive with 20+ years building, turning around, and transforming consumer-facing businesses across telecom, media, and consumer technology — the last six as Vice President and GM of Samsung mobile business in Türkiye. Proven record of enterprise strategy development and execution: architecting multi-year commercial roadmaps, reallocating capital toward highest-return categories, and driving structural change in underperforming organizations. Demonstrated financial management discipline in turnaround contexts — rebuilding P&L architecture, reengineering cost and revenue levers simultaneously, and delivering sustained margin recovery. Transformational leadership track record across large, complex organizations. Deep operating fluency across the full commercial stack — product, brand, omnichannel distribution, pricing, field organization — combined with performance reporting into global stakeholders. A track record of consistently high-impact delivery performance for mandates with increasing scope and complexity.

Experience

  • Vice President / GM Mobile Division at Samsung Mobile
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    - Sales (B2C & B2B), Marketing, Retail Management - End to end P&L responsibility - Managing sales channels and accounts, online and offline (7K+ offline points of sale) - Retail & field management including owned and partner channels and field sales team - Product management covering all mobile product lineup - Brand management and marketing - Supply Chain Planning and Management

  • VP and Chief Marketing Officer at beIN MEDIA GROUP
    Jun 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    - Full responsibility of end to end marketing process - Managing PayTV and OTT Products - Responsible for brand management and marketing communication - delivered significant brand awareness - Improving digital footprint and optimizing assets to bring higher sales and generate brand uplift - Developing customer experience initiatives to improve satisfaction and loyalty

  • Turk Telekom (8 yrs)
    • Senior Director, Marketing - Mobile Business Unit
      Dec 2016 - Jun 2017 · 7 mos

      - Managed Consumer and Corporate segments (~18 Million subscribers, ~6 B TRL revenues) - Delivered significant revenue and churn reduction results - Double digit growth in revenue per user and total gross revenues - Launched new product portfolios in short project timelines with close & end to end management of processes

    • Strategy Director
      Sep 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      • Developing group level strategy for consumer business, over commercial functions including fixed and mobile • Developing entity / function / subject specific strategies that is aligned with overall corporate strategy and business vision • Delivering end-to-end solution design & plan for improving ongoing businesses • Consulting regularly with the executive committee and other senior management teams to discuss, evaluate and plan corporate-wide strategies and organizational initiatives Major Assignments and achievements: - Leading Fixed and Mobile business strategies for the group - Developing strategies for positioning, marketing mix and channel structures - Mastering action plans for competitive & regulatory challenges - Entity level Strategy Development - Business Enhancement & Development - Coordination of Commercial Actions & Plans

    • Marketing Director
      Apr 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - Managing fixed voice and broadband services & narrowband products for consumer segments - Managing commercial initiatives to optimize and improve EBITDA stream and overall business performance Major Assignments and Achievements: - Revenue management & Pricing - Segment Management & go to market design - Customer Value Management (CVM), Retention & Loyalty programs - Product Development & Management - Consumer Electronics & Terminal Business - Co-branding & partnerships - Customer Relations & Channel Planning & Management - Customer Experience Design & Management - Value addes services and products - Business Development and generating new revenue streams - Regulatory Framework & Process management

  • Planning Manager at Turkcell
    Feb 2008 - Jul 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Call Center Operations Planning Head - Developed new approcahes in resource planning for call center & field force - Business responsibility, around 5000+ Headcount, for over 50 services dispersed over 7 locations with additional 3 outsource service Operations planning: • Operations Forecasting & budgeting studies in a significantly volatile and cost oriented business environment • Resource planning & supply management • New Product / service assessment (financial / operational) and P&L Budgeting & Costing: • Service-wise / operation-wise P & L analysis • Long term Resource Planning • Demand & Supply planning (Statistical forecasting and mathematical modeling) • Business reengineering / process optimization studies

  • Planning Analyst at Ford Motor Company
    Jul 2003 - Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Planning & Coordination Supervisor - Managing production & capacity utilization with seamless planning of process, headcount and material supply. Providing engineering support for production & maintenance teams, in terms of resource optimization and process planning - Business responsibility, around 600+ headcount, 300K Vehicles per year Production Planning: • Production scheduling over significant volume and a wide mix of products • Capacity & Headcount planning for main production facilities, with 300K production capacity and 600+ headcount • Budgeting and forecasting for manufacturing and headcount planning Production Management Issues: • Process optimization with lean tools such as 6 sigma and advanced manufacturing methodologies • Supply chain & inventory management, MRP and Warehouse management to adhere production plans and optimize costs as well • Financial / operational analysis and reporting for manufacturing and inventory costs and overall product costing • Quality systems management and process engineering to improve defect statistics